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by xpl 2y ago
Yeah, but that is for "internal consumption" and it doesn't affect any international relations, unlike "declaring war". An interesting example is the U.S. which has been in a "state of war" (official term
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by xpl 2y ago
Nations do not declare wars anymore, because wars are illegal since WW2. Quoting Wikipedia: > Since 1945, developments in international law such as the United Nations Charter, which prohibits both the threat and the use of force in inte
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by xpl 2y ago
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vufjqmhz8lk
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by xpl 2y ago
It's actually difficult to achieve even something as simple as getting a robot to stand upright. Most of them walk with bent knees and constantly shift from one foot to the other (e.g. Boston Dynamics).
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by xpl 2y ago
It's obvious. Imagine the PR disaster if the robot 'hallucinated' and said something inappropriate, or worse, accidentally pushed or hit someone. Why take the risk when everything needs to run smoothly? The first time they sh
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Show HN: Replace "approve" with "bless" in GitHub UI(gist.github.com)
3 points by xpl 2y ago|0 comments
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by xpl 2y ago
If treated like code, the expression looks almost grotesquely bad: hundreds of cryptic single-letter variables all over the place, no decomposition, no comments, everything crammed into a monstrous, all-encompassing "god function"
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by xpl 2y ago
Most people are underpaid if we consider the global 'productivity-pay gap' phenomenon (since the 1970s, wages haven't been growing as much as productivity)...
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by xpl 2y ago
I would like to read it, but it's under a paywall.
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by xpl 2y ago
Then it's not a real universe but a mere symbol, I'd say. "Map vs. territory" And in order for that symbol to exist (be expressed / thought of / conceived), it must be a part of some other existing universe t
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by xpl 2y ago
Your very definition of "poorly designed" is overly rigid and unproductive. When you design APIs for everyday human use, you value expressiveness and succinctness over verbosity and explicitness. Because such APIs are more of a &q
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by xpl 2y ago
Can there be an empty universe? I suppose there is no "self" to represent then.
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by xpl 2y ago
It is definitely not in major cities, otherwise we would've already known. It might be that Iran doesn't want to cause any real damage (as then Israel would destroy its oil industry and nuclear sites in retaliation) — it only wa
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by xpl 2y ago
> just set the price and sell it without this investor stuff Another idea is not to set an arbitrary fixed price, but to auction green cards off, with a limited annual cap. So the market would decide the price (the highest bidder wins)
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by xpl 2y ago
Does it even matter what human brains do on biological level? I only care about the outcomes (the useful ones). To me true AGI is achieved when it gets agency, becomes truly autonomous and could do real things best of us, humans, do — start
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by xpl 2y ago
> Also, again, it’s not a tuple. It’s an array with 2 elements. JavaScript does not have tuples or the semantics for interacting with them as such Not true. In TypeScript, there are tuples — you can perfectly describe an array having 2
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by xpl 2y ago
> Yes useEffect is also a huge complex pain point We have a rule of thumb in our projects: if you use useEffect directly in application code, it is a probable sign that something is wrong with your code, like you're working on a w
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by xpl 2y ago
> Why doesn’t it act like almost everything else in js land and return an object with 2 named fields The explanation is actually very simple: because in 100% of times you need to give those two fields custom names. It is easier and mor
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by xpl 2y ago
> Can you imagine how goofy you'd look sitting at a coffee shop and just sort of staring into the middle distance and talking, as you take a Zoom call? Honestly, people used to say the same thing about Bluetooth hands-free devices
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Show HN: Chat Mode for Hacker News (Live Comments Updater)(gist.github.com)
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by xpl 2y ago
The fun thing is that while GPTs initially learned from humans (because ~100% of the content was human-generated), future humans will learn from GPTs, because almost all available content would be GPT-generated very soon. This will surely a
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by xpl 2y ago
So it basically says if you net worth is over $2 mil, you're need to pay exit tax, right? If a house and 401k also counted towards net worth, it could impact quite a few Americans. Besides, those who expatriate for tax optimization pur
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by xpl 2y ago
> If you don't want to pay those taxes, then renounce your US citizenship once you have Haven't you heard of exit tax? If you renounce citizenship (or surrender your 8+ year green card), you must pay 30% of your worldwide as
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by xpl 2y ago
> so you end up losing your best people to companies Management probably thinks they don't need the best people anymore, as mediocre employees + ChatGPT (or whatever they use at Amazon) will suffice.
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by xpl 2y ago
Literally in every HN post about AI, it is a common pattern in the comments section... "LLMs are simply predicting next token, it is not thinking/reasoning/etc." "LLMs can't reason, only humans can reason&qu
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by xpl 2y ago
Folks who say "LLMs can't reason", what now? Have we moved the goalposts yet?
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by xpl 2y ago
Startups today are interested in profits, not in valuation. This means they now need to crank out a working product as quickly as possible, and that means hiring only seasoned seniors with an impressive track record. Previously, they could
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by xpl 2y ago
> Previously, my LinkedIn profile used to be flooded with job offers, but now it’s nearly silent Can confirm. I nowadays receive mostly messages from people who are looking for a job and curious if our team is hiring. Though it is most
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by xpl 2y ago
Probably they don't read Hackernews anymore. I personally think re-learning into construction / architecture as a backup plan. IMO we are all living in overly costly and ugly houses, so maybe it could be improved at least a bit :)
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by xpl 2y ago
> You can't cache it at every resolution True, but you don't need everything at max resolution simultaneously , so you can update your caches according to the current zoom level and thus get infinite zooming if you want. At

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